The Highland Inn, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Moved to the Metropolitan University - in homely language, the College of Edinburgh where he acquired a sufficiency of medical lore to be dubbed a Doctor, and to enable him to hold the double commissions of assistant surgeon and ensign in the forty-second regi ment. But young Mac Alpin's mind, tinctured by romance and poetic imaginings, the growth of the mountain regions of his nativity, was ill adapted for the performance of his surgical avo cations, for bandaging and amputating limbs; he, therefore, soon exchanged the lancet for the sword, fought his way to a company, and, in due time, he might have commanded the regiment, had not the waywardness of his disposition changed again his destiny, and led him to te sume his medical functions. He had, in the interval, made a voyage to America, where he was shipwrecked; and on his return to Europe, meeting with disappointment in an attach ment which he had long and devotedly fos.

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